8. The evolution of stars a more detailed picture

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1 8. The evolution of stars a more detailed picture 8.1Pre Main-Sequence Evolution Evolution onto the main sequence begins with a cloud of cold gas which contracts under self-gravity. Potential Energy is transformed into kinetic energy, which gets thermalised, so the temperature goes up. This phase lasts a relatively short time. When the cloud is hot enough, the gas is ionised and OPACITY sets in. When that is the case, the gas finds it harder to lose energy, and becomes hotter even quicker. Since the opacity is so high the star is fully convective. The star in the HR diagram moves at tracks of almost constant temperature and with decreasing luminosity (Fig. 1). These are called Hayashi-tracks. In time, as the internal temperature continues to rise, ionisation is completed and the opacity drops. The convective zone recedes from the centre, and the star moves to higher effective temperatures. Slowly nuclear burning starts in the core. As a result the stellar luminosity starts rising slowly. In the end, when nuclear burning has fully set in, a star is born, and the star appears on the Main Sequence. The timescale of evolution onto the Main Sequence is relatively short, given by the Kelvin-Helmholtz timescale : t KH U L G M 2 R L Stars in the pre-main sequence are hard to detecet because they are scarce, but also because they are still shrouded by the remains of the cloud in which they are formed. The less massive pre-main sequence stars appear as highly variable mass ejecting objects known as T Tauri stars. They are surrounded by circumstellar disks, sites of planet formation.

2 Before a star starts burning hydrogen it is often called a protostar. Several candidate protostars have been found by the Hubble Space Telescope in the Orion Nebula. During the initial collapse, the clump is transparent to radiation and the collapse proceeds fairly quickly. As the clump becomes more dense, it becomes opaque. Escaping IR radiation is trapped, and the temperature and pressure in the center begin to increase. At some point, the pressure stops the infall of more gas into the core and the object becomes stable as a protostar.

3 The protostar, at first, only has about 1% of its final mass. But the envelope of the star continues to grow as infalling material is accreted. After a few million years, thermonuclear fusion begins in its core, then a strong stellar wind is produced which stops the infall of new mass. The protostar is now considered a young star since its mass is fixed, and its future evolution is now set. T-Tauri Stars: Once a protostar has become a hydrogen-burning star, a strong stellar wind forms, usually along the axis of rotation. Thus, many young stars have a bipolar outflow, a flow of gas out the poles of the star. This is a feature which is easily seen by radio telescopes. This early phase in the life of a star is called the T-Tauri phase. One consequence of this collapse is that young T Tauri stars are usually surrounded by massive, opaque, circumstellar disks. These disks gradually accrete onto the stellar surface, and thereby radiate energy both from the disk (infrared wavelengths), and from the position where material falls onto the star at (optical and ultraviolet wavelengths). Somehow a fraction of the material accreted onto the star is ejected perpendicular to the disk plane in a highly collimated stellar jet. The circumstellar disk eventually dissipates, probably when planets begin to form. Young stars also have dark spots on

4 their surfaces which are analogous to sunspots but cover a much larger fraction of the surface area of the star. The T-Tauri phase is when a star has: vigorous surface activity (flares, eruptions) strong stellar winds variable and irregular light curves A star in the T-Tauri phase can lose up to 50% of its mass before settling down as a main sequence star, thus we call them pre-main sequence stars. Their location on the HR diagram is shown below: The arrows indicate how the T-Tauri stars will evolve onto the main sequence. They begin their lives as slightly cool stars, then heat up and become bluer and slightly fainter, depending on their initial mass. Very massive young stars are born so rapidly that they just appear on the main sequence with such a short T-Tauri phase that they are never observed. T-Tauri stars are always found embedded in the clouds of gas from which they were

5 born. One example is the Trapezium cluster of stars in the Orion Nebula. The evolution of young stars is from a cluster of protostars deep in a molecular clouds core, to a cluster of T-Tauri stars whose hot surface and stellar winds heat the surrounding gas to form an HII region (HII, pronounced H-two, means ionized hydrogen). Later the cluster breaks out, the gas is blown away, and the stars evolve as shown below.

6 Often in galaxies we find clusters of young stars near other young stars. This phenomenon is called supernova induced star formation. The very massive stars form first and explode into supernova. This makes shock waves into the molecular cloud, causing nearby gas to compress and form more stars. This allows a type of stellar coherence (young stars are found near other young stars) to build up, and is responsible for the pinwheel patterns we see in galaxies. Contraction takes about 1% of a star's life. It will spend about 80% as a main sequence stars. For example, for the Sun, the contraction phase takes about M Sun. For a 9 solar mass star this phase takes only 10 5 years. 8.2 Low-mass stars (from Vik Dhillon - Sheffield) Stars of mass less than 1.1 M Sun fuse hydrogen using the P-P chain. As this has a comparatively weak temperature dependence, energy generation is not sufficiently concentrated at the centre of the star to induce convection, and the core of the star is radiative. This means that the core of the star is not mixed and nuclear reactions can therefore draw only on the fuel that is available locally. The temperature is highest at the centre and so the rate of burning is highest there, forming a concentration gradient with smallest hydrogen content in the centre of the star. The interior of three stellar types are shown below. Note that an O star is about 15 times larger than a G star, and a M star is about 1/10 the size of a G star, this scale is shown below the interiors.

7 This scale, on the other hand, displays the absolute sizes. Notice how the nuclear burning regions takes up a larger percentage of the stellar interior as one goes to low mass stars. High mass stars have a very small core surrounded by a large envelope. The energy released from the stellar core heats the stellar interior producing the pressure that holds a star

8 up. If stars were like cars, then they would burn their core hydrogen until they ran out and the star would fade out. But fusion converts hydrogen into helium. So the core does not become empty, it fills with helium `ash'. Eventually, the centre of the star becomes completely devoid of hydrogen. Immediately outside the centre, however, the temperature is only a little lower and there is still hydrogen left to burn. Nuclear reactions therefore continue, but now in a thick shell rather than throughout a sphere, as shown in Figure 1. Fig. 1:The structure of a low-mass star ( M 1.1 M Sun red-giant branches of the HR diagram. ) on the sub-giant and The continuation of nuclear burning in a shell means that there is no need for the whole star to contract. Only in the central regions, where there is no longer any energy production but energy is still leaking outwards in to the rest of the star, is there a need for an additional energy source. The core thus begins to contract, releasing gravitational potential energy and therefore getting hotter. Because the core gets hotter, the temperature of the hydrogen-

9 fusing shell outside the core also increases, increasing the rate of fusion. This heats up the intermediate layers of the star, causing them to expand. The expansion increases the total radius of the star. Recalling that: 4 L 4 R S T eff and given that the luminosity a radiative envelope can carry is nearly constant for a star of given mass, there must be a decrease in the effective temperature of the star, causing the star to appear red. The immediate postmain-sequence evolution of a radiative star therefore moves the star's position more-or-less horizontally to the right in to the sub-giant branch of the HRdiagram, as shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 2: The complete evolution of a low-mass star ( M 1.1 M Sun ) from the main sequence to a white dwarf, depicted schematically on an HR diagram.

10 As the star expands, however, the effective temperature cannot continue to fall indefinitely. When the temperature of the outer layers of the star fall below a certain level, they become fully convective. This enables a greater luminosity to be carried by the outer layers and hence abruptly forces the evolutionary tracks of low-mass stars in the HR diagram to travel almost vertically upwards to the giant branch (see Fig. 2). The effective temperature at which this upward excursion in luminosity on the HR diagram occurs is known as the Hayashi line. Meanwhile, the helium core continues to contract until it becomes degenerate. The increased gravity at the border of the core and the shell which results from the core contraction raises the density of the hydrogen in the shell. This increases the rate of hydrogen burning in the shell, sending the star quickly up the red giant branch. The hotter hydrogen-burning shell heats up the degenerate core until it reaches the point where helium fusion to carbon through the triple-alpha process is possible. The onset of this fusion process and the consequent heating of the core would normally increase the core pressure, causing it to expand and cool in response, keeping the temperature just high enough for the nuclear reactions to continue; helium burning would therefore start in a stable fashion. Because the core is degenerate, however, its pressure is independent of the temperature and hence it cannot expand and cool in response to the nuclear energy generation. Hence the core heats up, which increases the rate of helium fusion, which in turn increases the core

11 temperature still further, leading to a thermonuclear runaway reaction know as the helium flash (see Fig. 2). The helium flash ends when the temperature has risen sufficiently to make higher-energy electron states available for electrons to move into, lifting the core degeneracy and allowing the core to expand. The expansion of the core following the helium flash reduces the gravity at the core/shell boundary, which weakens the hydrogen shell-source. Thus, although the star now has two nuclear energy source - the helium burning core and the hydrogen-burning shell - the prodigious shell source is now so weakened that the star produces less luminosity than before. The lower total luminosity is too little to keep the star in its distended red-giant state and the star shrinks in size, dims and settles on the horizontal branch (see figure 2). Fig. 3: The structure of a low-mass star ( M 1.1 M Sun branch of the HR diagram. ) on the asymptotic giant The history of the helium burning stage is much like the earlier hydrogen burning stage. When the core helium is exhausted, a helium burning shell is established between the inert carbon-oxygen core and the hydrogen-burning shell (see Fig. 3) and the star evolves up the asymptotic giant branch, as shown in Fig. 2. This stage of stellar evolution is not well understood, involving complex interactions between the helium and hydrogen burning shells. The star becomes increasingly unstable and begins to lose mass in an intense stellar wind, which eventually consumes the whole outer envelope. This lost mass forms an expanding cloud around the star known as a planetary nebula, an example of which is shown in Fig. 4.

12 Fig. 4: The Helix nebula ( Anglo-Australian Observatory). The extremely hot, degenerate, carbon-oxygen core of the original star, no longer generating energy, remains as the central star of the planetary nebula and cools slowly as it radiates away its stored heat. When the core has finally burnt its hydrogen and helium shells, lost its extended envelope and descended the HR diagram, it is known as a white dwarf. The final approach to a white dwarf from an asymptotic giant star is shown as a dashed line in Fig. 2 because the theory is incomplete for these late stages of stellar evolution. Fig. 5 summarises the complete evolution of a low-mass star ( M 1.1 M Sun ) from the main sequence to a carbon-oxygen white dwarf in pictorial form.

13 Fig. 5: The complete evolution of a low-mass star ( M 1.1 M Sun ) from the main sequence to a carbon-oxygen white dwarf in pictorial form. 8.3 High-mass stars (from Vik Dhillon - Sheffield) In stars with masses greater than about 1.1 M Sun, the central temperature is high enough for the CNO cycle to become dominant. The strong temperature dependence of the CNO cycle means that the energy generation is much more concentrated at the centre of the star. The resulting steep temperature gradient is unstable to convection and hence such stars have convective cores. Convection has the effect of mixing the material in the core, bringing fresh hydrogen into the centre and spreading the newly-produced helium throughout the core. This keeps the chemical composition of the core uniform, which means that when the nuclear reactions have used up all of the hydrogen at the centre, there is no hydrogen left anywhere in the convectively mixed region and energy production ceases throughout the core. Just outside the core, hydrogen is still available for burning, but the temperature is too low for fusion to occur and hydrogen burning ceases altogether when the core burns out.

14 The abrupt cessation of hydrogen burning means that the star now has no nuclear energy source and it is forced into a slow overall contraction. Part of the gravitational potential energy released is used to balance the radiation from its surface, but about half of it goes into heating up the core as the central density and pressure are increased by the contraction. Eventually, the core is hot enough that hydrogen can start burning in a thin shell just outside the core boundary. The star is now similar in structure to a hydrogen-shellburning star of lower mass, as shown in Fig. 1, but it has a much thinner shell (because the dependence of energy production on temperature is more severe). Overall contraction stops, and the energy from the contraction of the core is now fed into an expansion of the envelope, just as for lower-mass stars. The main difference in the evolutionary track of higher-mass stars in the HR-diagram is that the phase of overall contraction causes a hook to the left before progress to the giant region is resumed once the shell has ignited, as shown in Fig. 2.

15 Fig. 2: The evolution of high-mass stars depicted schematically on an HR diagram. The track for a solar mass star is also shown for comparison. The three dots on each track represent, from left to right, the main-sequence, the onset of core contraction following hydrogen exhaustion, and the beginning of helium burning, respectively. The exhausted core now consists of almost pure helium. Although there is no nuclear energy source, the centre of the star is initially hotter than the edge of the core and heat flows down this temperature gradient, cooling the centre and heating up the outside. This continues until the core becomes isothermal. The isothermal core grows slowly in mass as the shell gradually burns its way outwards into fresh fuel, leaving helium 'ash' behind. This continues until the core reaches the Schönberg-Chandrasekhar limit of about 10% of the mass of the star, at which point an isothermal core cannot support itself against gravity. This instability only occurs in stars with masses between about 2 M Sun and 6 M Sun. For lower mass stars, the core becomes degenerate before the Schönberg-Chandrasekhar limit is reached; for higher mass stars, the central temperature becomes hot enough for helium fusion to occur before the Schönberg-Chandrasekhar limit is reached. In stars in which the Schönberg-Chandrasekhar limit is reached, the core begins to contract rapidly. The energy released goes into a rapid expansion of the whole star, and hence a rapid transition to the giant branch. Because of

16 this rapid transition, very few stars are observed during this phase, which accounts for the Hertsprung gap seen in HR diagrams of clusters. As lowermass stars become red giants less rapidly, this agrees with the absence of a Hertzsprung gap in the HR diagrams of globular clusters. The collapse of the helium core, whether rapid or not, raises the central temperature to the point where helium ignites via the triple-alpha process. If the core is not degenerate (i.e. M > 2 M Sun ), helium ignites gently and there is no helium flash. The effect of helium ignition, whether violent or quiet, is to move a star off the giant branch towards higher surface temperatures (i.e. to the left of the HR diagram). There are now two nuclear energy sources, helium-burning in the core and hydrogen-burning in a shell, and the evolution is much more complicated than in the core-hydrogen-burning phase. After existing as horizontal branch stars for a few million years, the helium in the core of the star is exhausted (now being mostly carbon and oxygen nuclei) and a helium burning shell will develop underneath the hydrogen burning shell. The electrons and nuclei in the core again become degenerate and the star expands and cools to become an asymptotic giant branch star.

17 Most of the energy is coming from the hydrogen burning shell, the helium burning shell is small at this time. However, the hydrogen shell is dumping helium ash onto the helium shell. After sometime, enough helium is built up so that the helium shell undergoes an explosive event called a thermal pulse. The thermal pulse is barely noticed at the surface of the star, but serves to increase the mass of the carbon/oxygen core, so that the size and luminosity of the star gradually increases with time. As the star climbs the asymptotic giant branch, a wind develops in the star's envelope which blows the outer layers into space. It is in this wind that dust particles (important for interstellar clouds and proto-solar systems) are formed from carbon material dredged up from the core by convective currents. During this time, a thick dust shell blocks the visible light from the star such that even though it is 10,000 brighter than the Sun, it is only seen in the IR. Nuclear evolution beyond core helium-burning depends on whether or not the carbon-oxygen core ever becomes hot enough for further fusion reactions to occur and whether the core becomes degenerate. For stars with initial

18 masses of M > 8 M Sun, the core is non-degenerate and carbon can ignite quietly, burning first to oxygen and neon. At lower initial masses, a carbon flash occurs, as the core is degenerate. Further reactions are possible and a series of burning episodes builds up successive shells of more and more processed material. Elements produced in these shells include magnesium, silicon and sulphur. For stellar masses greater than about 11 M Sun, burning can proceed as far as iron and other elements of comparable nuclear mass, principally chromium, manganese, cobalt and nickel (the so-called iron-peak elements). At this point, because iron is the most stable element, with the highest binding energy per nucleon, to produce elements heavier than iron it is necessary to add energy. The star has thus exhausted all its possible nuclear fuels and it has an onion skin structure, with successive shells containing the ashes of the various burning stages, as shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 3: The onion-ring structure of a red supergiant (a pre-supernova star). Note that this diagram is not too scale - the outer hydrogen burning shell has a radius of order 10-2 R Sun and whereas the star has a radius of order 10 3 R Sun. The evolution of a massive star undergoing these different phases of core and shell burning beyond helium is very complex. As the core and shell energy sources vary in relative strength, the star makes a number of excursions to and fro across the HR diagram. In high-mass stars, these rightward (core exhaustion) and leftward (core ignition) excursions, between the red and blue (supergiant) branches respectively, occur with only a slight systematic

19 increase in luminosity and hence the evolutionary tracks of high-mass stars occur virtually horizontally in the HR diagram. In very high-mass stars, the nuclear evolution in the central regions of the star occurs so quickly that the outer layers have no time to respond to the successive rounds of core exhaustion and core ignition, and there is only a relatively steady drift to the right on the HR diagram before the star arrives at the pre-supernova state, as shown in Fig. 2. It should be noted that the details of this stage of stellar evolution remain uncertain. In addition, the time taken to make these latter excursions in the HR diagram are very small compared to the duration of the earlier phases. So we do not expect to observe all the complications of an individual evolutionary track to show up in a star cluster HR diagram. With no nuclear energy generation, the iron core becomes degenerate. As lighter elements continue to burn in shells above it, the iron core grows in mass until it exceeds the Chandrasekhar limit of around 1.4 M Sun - the maximum possible mass of a white dwarf, above which electron degeneracy pressure is insufficient to prevent gravitational collapse. The core then begins to collapse. The core's iron nuclei decompose into those of helium, which then fragment into protons and neutrons, and the protons then combine with the electrons to form more neutrons, all at the expense of the star's gravitational potential energy. In this way, the collapsed core becomes a neutron star, where it is the degeneracy pressure exerted by neutrons which prevents continued gravitational collapse. Meanwhile, the outer layers of the star are still collapsing: they hit the hard surface of the newly formed neutron star and bounce off, creating a shockwave which blows off the outer layers of the star in a Type II supernova explosion occurs, as depicted in the animation of Fig. 4. Fig.4: An animation showing the final stages of a Type II supernova explosion. What remains after a Type II supernova explosion? The expelled envelope of the star becomes visible as a supernova remnant, as shown in Fig. 5, at the centre of which lies the core of the star. If the core of the star has a mass of below approximately 3 M Sun, it is a neutron star, those that exhibit pulsed radiation being known as pulsars.

20 Fig. 5: The crab nebula - the remnant of a supernova which exploded about 900 years ago. But if the mass of the core exceeds approximately 3 M Sun, there is nothing to prevent the core from collapsing to a state of zero radius and infinite density (within the laws of physics as they are presently understood). Such an object is known as a black hole. Isolated black holes cannot be directly observed, as the escape velocity from its surface exceeds the speed of light. Evidence that they exist has only recently been confirmed via observations of binary stars, where the motion of the visible star is measured in order to determine the mass of the compact object lying at the heart of the accretion disc in Fig. 6. If the mass of the compact object is measured to be M > 3 M Sun, the existence of a black hole is inferred.

21 Fig. 6: An artists impression of an X-ray binary star, some of which are believed to harbour black holes.

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